Ventilator and air-supplying device for cars



Patented Oct. I8, |898. J. C. FLEMING. VENTILATDR VAND AIRSUPPLYINGDEVICE FUR CARS.

(App'limion med :une 11, 189.7.)

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No. 612,643. Patented Oct. I8, 1898. J. C. FLEMING.

VENTILATOR AND AIR SUPPLYING DEVICE FOR CARS.

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JOHN C. FLEMING, OFPIIIIADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA..

VENTILATOR AND AIR-SUPPLYING DEVICE FOR CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 612,643, dated October18, 1898. Application filed June 1l, 1897. Serial No. 640,298. (Nomodel.)

. and claimed.

It also consists of a combination and arrangement of parts hereinafterset forth and claimed.

Figure l represents a side elevation of a car-ventilator andair-supplying device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a top orplan view thereof. Fig. 3 represents an end View thereof. Fig. 4:represents a vertical section of a detached portion, on an enlargedscale. Fig. 5 represents a vertical section of another detached portionthereof. Fig. 6 represents a front view of the portion shown in Fig. 5.`

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a funnel which rises from thevertical pipe B and is open to the atmosphere, said pipe being properlysupported in a car and communicating at top with said funnel and atbottom with the box or chamber C, which occupies a position in thepresent case below the fioor of the car, said box containing afiuid intowhich said pipe dips.

D designates a vertical pipe which is connected at bottom with the box Cand at top with the valve-chamber E, to Which are attached the branchpipes F, which extend in horizontal directions to the ends of the car,Where they open into the same and are deflected toward each other at Gr.Y

H designates screens, formed of lattice or open work, which are inclosedin the casings J in front of the open ends of the pipes F G, adjacent towhich are the valves K, formed of slats pivotally mounted on the boxes Jand connected with the rods L, whereby said valves may be opened andclosed and set at different angles, as most clearly shown in Fig. 5.

. The pipe B is formed of sections B B2, con,- nected by the coupling Mand setfscrew N, whereby the funn el A may be turned to present its openend tothe direction in which the car is running. i

In the chamber E are two valves P, which are adapted to close the pipesF, so that, according to requirements, one pipe may be placed incommunication with the car and the other pipe cut off, or both pipes maybe in communication with the car or closed, as desired.

The operation is as follows: The air entering the Lfunnel A is directedinto the pipe Bv and conveyed by the same into the box C, whose outletis the pipe D. Consequently the air passes through the fluid in the boxand is Washed by the same, and the dust, &c., is trapped by said fluid.The air in its puried condition enters the pipe D, the chamber E, one ofthe branch pipes F, and is discharged at the open ends of one of thedefiectors Gr against and through the screens H, whereby it is spreadand then directed into the car at angles according to the, position ofthe valves L, thus Ventilating the car and supplying the same with airin a purified condition.

The fluid in the box C may be charged with salt, potash, and extract orpreparation of pine or other material or medicament, so as to impart tothe air the nature of said ingredients, the` pine impregnating the aii`with beneficial effects of air of mountains or pine forests and the saltthat of the sea, &c.,while if chlorids and similar ingredients are usedthe car may be disinfected by the use of thesame, it being evident thatpoisonous or deleterious matter in the air may be overcome or4neutralized and thev car suppliedwith purified air, to Which thebeneficial effects of the air of mountains, countries, forests, seas,dre., may be imparted whenso desire( The tank is provided with thedraining cock Q Q and overflow pipe or nozzle R for evident purposes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, isum 1. A car-Ventilator consisting of a tankadapted to contain a purifying material, a funnel with depending pipeleading` into the lower part of said tank, a valve-chamber, apipeleading from the upper part 0f said tank upwardly to saidvalve-chamber, a pipe leading from said valve-chamber a casing at thedischarge end of said pipe and a deflector with a screen for said casingat said discharge end.

2. A ventilator and air-suppl yin g device for a car consisting of afunnel, a vertical pipe to which said funnel is adj ustably connected, atank adapted to hold a purifying fluid, and into one end of which thelower end of said pipe dips, a pipe leading upwardly from the oppositeend of said tank, a Valve-chamber into which the said latter-mentionedpipe leads, pipes leading from said valve-chamber to opposite ends of acar and having ends deected toward each other and inclined frames facingsaid deflected end having screens thereon and provided with pivoteddeectors.

3. A car having intermediate of its ends and secured to its under side apurifyingtank, an adjustable funnel extending outside of and above saidcar intermediate of its ends, a pipe leading downwardly from said funnelin to said purifying-tank,a valve-chainber in the upper part of saidcar, a pipe leading from the upper part of said tank to saidvalve-chamber, pipes leading in opposite directions from saidvalve-chamber to the ends of said car their ends opening into casings onthe car and deectors adjacentto said casing receiving the air-dischargefrom said lastnalned pipes.

J Ol-IN C. FLEMING.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, WM. C. WIEDERSHEIM.

